Corelight - About the company
Corelight is a series E company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2013 by Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Gregory Bell. It operates as a Provider of criminal intelligence andd analytics platform for public safety. Corelight has raised $310M in funding from investors like Accel, Insight Partners and General Catalyst, with a current valuation of $*****. The company has 162 active competitors, including 27 funded and 26 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like SlashNext, Stamus Networks and Awake Networks.
Company Details
Provider of criminal intelligence and analytics platform for public safety. It provides a platform to detect and protect against security and operational anomaly in the enterprise. The product offers a hardware appliance optimized for performance and stability for installation in the IT network. It integrates with existing analysis tools like Splunk, Elastic Search, and Kafka to transform high-volume network traffic into high-fidelity data for incident response, intrusion detection, and forensics. The platform integrates with AI technologies to automate various security processes, improving the efficiency of threat detection and response.
- Website
- corelight.com
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@corelight.com
- Registered Address
- San Francisco, California
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2013
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$310M in 6 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$***** as on Apr 30, 2024
Ranked
1st among 162 active competitors
Employee Count
475 as on Mar 31, 2026
Legal entities associated with Corelight
Corelight is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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CORELIGHT, INC. CIN: 001t000000ozIq0AAE , United States, Active | Dec 21, 2021 | - | - | - |
CORELIGHT INC. CIN: 462775679 , United States, Active | Dec 26, 999 | - | 258 (As on Dec 31, 2024) | - |
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Corelight's funding and investors
Corelight has raised a total funding of $310M over 6 rounds. Its first funding round was on Feb 22, 2016. Its latest funding round was a Series E round on Apr 30, 2024 for $*****. 3 investors participated in its latest round. Corelight has 15 institutional investors and 1 angel investor.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Corelight:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Apr 30, 2024 | 6954229 | Series E | 4284599 | 7352423 | 2339053 | 7231111 |
Sep 02, 2021 | 6436628 | Series D | 3271776 | 6279747 | 4358743 | |
Oct 17, 2019 | 2950711 | Series C | 2201008 | 3656471 | 9990841 |
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Corelight's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Corelight are Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Gregory Bell. Brian Dye is the CEO of Corelight.
Here are the details of Corelight's key team members:
- Vern Paxson: Co-Founder of Corelight. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Robin Sommer: Co-Founder of Corelight and founder of 1 other company. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Gregory Bell: Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Corelight.
- Brian Dye: CEO of Corelight. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Corelight's employee count trend
Corelight has 475 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Corelight's employee count trend over the years:
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Corelight's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Corelight include SlashNext, Stamus Networks and Awake Networks. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Corelight, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Corelight 2013, San Francisco (United States), Series E | Provider of criminal intelligence andd analytics platform for public safety | $310M | 69/100 | |
2nd |  SlashNext 2014, Pleasanton (United States), Acquired | Cloud based network traffic analytics and threat detection platform | $43M | 64/100 | |
3rd | Stamus Networks 2014, Paris (France), Series A | Suricata IDPS engine based network security management platform | $8.55M | 57/100 | |
4th |  Awake Networks 2014, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Network traffic analytics based security & operations | $80M | 55/100 | |
5th | AI-based data collection and threat analytics platform for law enforcement department | $24M | 52/100 | ||
6th | NetWitness 2006, Herndon (United States), Acquired | Provider of network security monitoring and traffic analysis solution | $5.69M | 52/100 | |
7th | Gatewatcher 2015, Paris (France), Series A | Provider of network traffic analytics based APT detection | $28.4M | 52/100 | |
8th | ElastiFlow 2020, Oakland (United States), Series A | Network analytics solutions for open data platforms | $8M | 52/100 | |
9th |  Vehere 2006, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provides cyber security solutions | $3.33M | 51/100 | |
10th |  Venari Security 2017, London (United Kingdom), Series A | Cloud based encrypted traffic analysis solution provider | $5.84M | 50/100 |
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Corelight's Investments and acquisitions
Corelight has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Corelight
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News related to Corelight
Filter this listMedia has covered Corelight for a total of 6 events in the last 1 year, 5 of them have been about company updates and 1 about people movement.
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Corelight Extends Gen AI Leadership in NDR with New MCP Server and Prompt PlaybooksPR Newswire•Aug 01, 2025•Corelight
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Corelight Enhances Network Visibility and Detection Coverage with Insights from Microsoft DefenderCIO Influence•Jan 14, 2025•Corelight, Microsoft
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Corelight’s $150 Million Series E Funding RoundGlobal Legal Chronicle•May 16, 2024•Gunderson Dettmer, Corelight
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Our Continued Investment in Corelight: The Industry Standard for Open Network Detection and ResponseAccel•Apr 30, 2024•Corelight, Accel, CrowdStrike, Cisco and 2 others
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Corelight Expands Partnership with Amazon Web ServicesCorelight•Jan 16, 2024•Corelight, Amazon Web Services
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Corelight expands partnership with MandiantSecurityInfoWatch•Sep 18, 2023•Mandiant, Corelight, SentinelOne
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Ermetic Names Rick Beattie Executive Vice President of SalesBusiness Wire•Jul 21, 2023•Ermetic, Corelight
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